Matteo, > I am closing this bug because: > > 1. It has not been reproduced with the last version of fdutils, despite a > call > for testing launched in 2011 by myself. > > 2. m68k is not even a Debian architecture any more.
Can't fault you there - I can't remember seeing the CFT but then, I had one ot two catastrophic mail spool crashes on this system. Anyway - > Furthermore, after discussing with Alain Knaff (fdutils' upstream), it > appears > that Amiga was never supported, as their floppy controller had nothing to do > with Intel controllers. However, Atari should probably work. According to the old bug report, it did fail on Atari. m68k/amiga not working I can see, and m68k/mac I never expected to work (similar for Apple ppc). > Please feel free to reopen this bug if you are able to reproduce it. I'll see whether I can get a recent version from debian-ports. Not a priority though unless a m68k user complains (heh). In the meantime - thanks for putting this one to rest. Michael > Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 14:09:04 +0100 (CET) > From: Michael Schmitz <schm...@mail.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de> > To: sub...@bugs.debian.org > Subject: fdutils bug: superformat doesn't work on m68k (and ppc neither it > seems) > > Package: fdutils > Version: 5.3-3 > > superformat fails to work on m68k (Atari TT030, in this case). fdformat > has been removed from the archive in favor of superformat. No way of > formatting floppies under Linux now. > >From discussion on debian-powerpc it seems superformat won't work on ppc > machines either. > > Error message: > > m68k:~# superformat /dev/fd0 > get drive characteristics: Invalid argument > > Probable cause: superformat uses some ioctl not present on m68k. > > Please add fdformat back to the archive (doesn't seem to be in util-linux > 2.10f-3, only the nag script is there), or fix superformat to only use > system calls actually implemented on the architecture in question. Thanks. > > Michael Schmitz > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org